11-letter words containing f, a, r, e, c
- face-harden — to harden the surface of (metal), as by chilling or casehardening.
- facebookers — Plural form of facebooker.
- facinerious — (in the works of Shakespeare) extremely wicked
- fact finder — a person who searches impartially for the facts or actualities of a subject or situation, especially one appointed to conduct an official investigation, as in a labor-management conflict.
- factorylike — Resembling a factory in any of various respects.
- fairy cycle — a child's bicycle
- fallen arch — collapse of the arch formed by the instep of the foot, resulting in flat feet
- false color — photography using infrared-sensitive film that produces images in which heat-emitting areas or objects appear red.
- fan tracery — the carved ornamentation on fan vaulting
- fancy dress — a costume for a ball, masquerade, etc., chosen to please the fancy, usually a costume characteristic of a particular period or place, class of persons, or historical or fictitious character.
- far-fetched — improbable; not naturally pertinent; being only remotely connected; forced; strained: He brought in a far-fetched example in an effort to prove his point.
- farinaceous — consisting or made of flour or meal, as food.
- farm cheese — a mild, firm pressed cheese
- farreaching — Alternative spelling of far-reaching.
- feather cut — a woman's hair style in which the hair is cut in short and uneven lengths and formed into small curls with featherlike tips.
- feather-cut — a woman's hair style in which the hair is cut in short and uneven lengths and formed into small curls with featherlike tips.
- featherback — any freshwater fish of the family Notopteridae, of Asia and western Africa, having a small, feathery dorsal fin and a very long anal fin extending from close behind the head to the tip of the tail.
- felicitator — to compliment upon a happy event; congratulate.
- feral child — a neglected child who engages in lawless or anti-social behaviour
- ferricyanic — (inorganic chemistry) Of, pertaining to, or derived from a ferricyanide.
- ferrocyanic — (inorganic chemistry) Of, pertaining to, or derived from a ferrocyanide.
- fiduciaries — Plural form of fiduciary.
- film camera — a camera for taking moving pictures for a cinema film
- filter cake — the solid material accumulated by a filter press
- fire escape — an apparatus or structure used to escape from a burning building, as a metal stairway down an outside wall.
- firecracker — a paper or cardboard cylinder filled with an explosive and having a fuse, for discharging to make a noise, as during a celebration.
- firewatcher — A person who looks for the onset of fires, normally from a high vantage point.
- first cause — God.
- fiscal year — any yearly period without regard to the calendar year, at the end of which a firm, government, etc., determines its financial condition.
- flame color — bright reddish-orange.
- flare stack — A flare stack is a high vertical pipe for carrying unwanted gas so it can be burned off.
- flashpacker — a backpacker who has a considerable disposable income
- flat screen — a type of thin, lightweight video display that uses liquid crystals or electroluminescence to reflect images.
- flea circus — a number of fleas trained to perform tricks, as for a carnival sideshow
- flea collar — a dog or cat collar impregnated with a chemical for repelling or killing fleas.
- flickertail — Richardson ground squirrel.
- flock paper — a wallpaper treated with flock to emphasize a design or effect.
- floor space — an area on the floor of a premises where objects may be placed
- flycatchers — Plural form of flycatcher.
- food parcel — parcels of food prepared and sent, esp by charitable organizations, to people in need
- footscraper — a metal bar, set in a small frame and attached to a doorstep, used in cleaning mud from the bottoms of the shoes before entering a house.
- for certain — free from doubt or reservation; confident; sure: I am certain he will come.
- forage acre — a measure of the vegetation available for grazing on a range or pasture, equal to the total area multiplied by the percentage of surface covered by usable vegetation (Ex.: 10 acres × 30% coverage = 3 forage acres)
- forbearance — the act of forbearing; a refraining from something.
- forbiddance — the act of forbidding.
- force-draft — to draft (a law, proposal, or the like) quickly or under extreme pressure: The committee must force-draft a code of ethics to present to the meeting tomorrow.
- forced sale — a sale held as a result of a judicial order.
- forecasters — Plural form of forecaster.
- forecasting — Present participle of forecast.
- forecastles — Plural form of forecastle.